I still have years to go but am going to end up in management probably replacing my boss when he retires in a couple of years. We are a small shop so he still gets to program sometimes and that's what I am hoping for.

Had the virus, Got both shots, both made me feel like I had the virus again for 1-2 days. I would say its much better to get the vaccine than the actual virus as I was out for 2 weeks with it. I did talk with my doc and public health officials they said their was very little risk with getting the shot even after being exposed to the virus.

This was the guy that created homebrew. He was turned down for a job at google, he wrote an interesting article about the interview process and getting turned down if I remember correctly.

TBH for most people windows defender is good enough. I always pair it with setting dns to quad9.

This did not go where I thought it was going to go.

Wiz Biz series by Rick Cook is one of my favorite series about programming in magic.

I have 4 versions installed side by side 2013 15 17 and 19 I have some plugins that work much better in the older versions and keep them around for that. in other words it should be fine running them on the same laptop with no real issues.

This feature is something linux does better than windows, you can set the setting to scroll active window. I am hoping windows catches up soon and makes it a windows thing instead of per app thing.

I also am my own IT and Developer where I work. It seems to be the best balance as I can spin up what I need or request one of my coworkers to do so with very little explanation if any at all.

1989 though I generally don't respond just but I do like to lurk in the shadows and read responses.

In the case of DNS failure, it has saved me quite a few times when DNS crashed, and DNS on a large scale can die too look at the DYN Denial of service attack that affected most of the east coast, also for me numbers seem to be easier to remember than names or strings depending on the complexity so IPv4 was simple enough to remember.

Have you looked at Rainmeter, I know there are some using it as an app launcher. It is a wonderful app and you can customize it endlessly (benefit and drawback). Also it has a large community writing skins for it.

I use git with bitbucket (free unlimited private repos for up to 5 user teams) I used to always use the command line though I found that it integrates well with visual studios, sublime text, atom. I also have just started playing around with source tree (same maker as bitbucket) it seems to be a very nice interface and may be very helpful for people who are new to git (it seems very user friendly that is). Good Luck!